The following is my presentation to the conference Enercom 2011. The presentation addresses the implications of Japan’s nuclear crisis and trends in global energy developments for the Canadian nuclear industry.
Here are some comments and developments regarding the state of the nuclear renaissance:
John Rowe, the highly regarded CEO of Exelon, the largest nuclear operator in the US, presented a lecture on March 8th effectively declaring the end of the nuclear renaissance fad prominent in the U.S. over the last decade. Rowe says that the radically transformed natural gas outlook for the U.S. has also destroyed the economic …